On 16/11/99 Todd Suess wrote:
I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26
packages, one of which was acct 6.3.5-16. After downloading all
the packages,
apt went right into configuring packages. and it stopped. and sat. and sat.
I let it sit about a half hour with no hard drive activity, before I
killed it.
I went to /var/cache/apt/archives and manually did dpkg -i * and installed
all the packages. They all installed except acct, which did the exact same
thing as with apt. I purged acct completely, and tried apt-get install acct.
Same thing. I finally killed it again, and am currently running with
accounting functions. Anyone else run into this?
yup sure did, i tried to figure out what is going wrong but really
did not find the problem, i suspect its something to do with debconf
and/or perl.
I can tell you its definitely getting stuck in the postinst script.
I just manually performed the steps in the post install script and
changed it to execute /bin/true :-) (i put the original one back
after dpkg/apt were satisfied with the install) a quick look around
and everything appears to be in order... probably not a good idea but
i'm adventurous.
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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